Deflector for heat-radiators.



F. W. BUTT. DEFLEGTOR FOB. HEAT RADIATOES.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 24, 1911.

,1 98,224. Patented May 26, 1914.

UNITED STATES FATE FTCE.

FEEDER-IO W. BUTT, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR OF TWO-THIRDS TO CORNELL S. HAWLEY, OF ALBANY, NEN YORK.

DEFLECTOR FOR HEAT-RADIATORS.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that LFREDERIG V. Bn'rr, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Deflectors for Heat-Radr ators, of which the following is a Specification.

This invention relates to deflectors for heat radiators which are placed beneath seats, and it is particularly applicable to the stationary, cross or longitudinal ear-seats of passenger cars. I

One of the objects of the invention 18 to provide a simple and inexpensive device for attachment to the radiator, which will defiect the heat from underneath the seat cushion and away from same and prevent the body of the seat as well as its sides from becoming unduly heated, thereby obviating one of the discomforts of traveling. By

this invention the heated air is kept constantly in motion and directed to the rear of the seat or to one or both of its ends, thus preventing the currents from. becoming pocketed beneath the seat cushion.

Another object of the invention is to provide a heat deflector which is easily attached to the radiator and with it to the frame of the car seat and which is also detachable from both the radiator and the car seat-frame.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a rear elevation of a typical car-seat to which the invention is applied. Fig. 2- is an end-elevation with the seat-frame in section. Fig. 3, is a rear. elevation, with parts broken away, showing a modified form of deflector; and Fig. 4, is a sectional view on the line X-X of Fig. 3.

The car-seat comprises cushion 1 and back 2 supported by seat-frame 3 which is mounted atone end on a pedestal 4 and suitably attached at the other end to carside 5. The carseat is provided therebeneath with any suitable form of heat radiator 6, arranged lengthwise of the seatframe and supported thereby through the medium of cross-bars 7 and 8, the ends of which are bolted to the seat-frame, as at 9 and 9. The radiator is suspended from these cross-bars, to which it is attached by bolts 10. To suitably position it with reference to the deflector, hereinafter described, each of the said cross-bars is provided with Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed November 24, 1911.

Patented May 26, 1914. Serial No. 662,164.

angular bends to form a depressed portion 11 n themiddle thereof, where the'radiator is secured. Interposed between the radiator 6 and cushion 1 of the car-seat is the heatdeflector 12. This comprises a plane-member of metal or other suitable material sufiiciently long to cover the radiator for its entire length, or nearly so, and sufficiently wide to extend from a point near the front of the seat-frame to the rear underneath edge of the cushion. It is upwardly inclined. transversely, so that its rear edge 13 is ele vated a suitable height above its front edge 13 and extends to a point where it is in contact with the'underneath rear edge of the cushion 1, or nearly so. The deflector is constructed at itsrear elevated portion with a hood or trough 17 open at the bottom for its entire length. This trough, which is substantially of inverted U-shape, is closed at one end of the deflector, as at 18, and extends beyond the other end, as at 19, to a point near the end of the cushion 1 of the car-seat, and at this end the trough is open. The closed top 20'of the hood or trough is upwardly-inclined from its closed end to the open end. The object of this construction of the deflector with a hood or trough at the rear of the car-seat is to carry the rearwardly deflected heat currents to one end of the carseat where they are discharged. The object is to protect all of the underneath surface of the seat-cushion as farback as the said rear edge, from exposure to the heat currents from the radiator G. The deflector 12 is supported at each end and held in position with its rear edge elevated, as above stated,

by means of a pair of angleirons or brackets l4 and 15 secured to the top of crossbars 7 and 8 and to the seatframe. The brackets 11 are L-shaped and the long arms thereof, 14 are bent upwardly a suitable distance from their ends to allow them to conform to the angle of inclination of the deflector as shown in Fig. '2. These arms are provided with rivet-holes and are se-' cured to the upper surface of the deflector near the front by the rivets 16. The short arms are provided with bolt-holes and are secured on the front ends of the cross-bars and to the seat-frame by the said bolts 9. The angle-irons Or brackets 15, which are vertically disposed, are secured to the under surface of the deflector near its rear edge by the rivets 16 and on the rear ends of the crossbars and to the seat-frame by the said bolts 9. These brackets are bent in opposite directions and the bends are right-angular to form oppositely-disposed arms, which are provided with rivet and bolt-holes.

In Fig. 3 a modification of heat'defiector for attachment to the seat-frame, is shown. The deflector here comprises a plane member 21 and trough 22 which may be secured to the seat-frame 3 above the radiator 6 by the form of attachment hereinbetore described. The description of this planemember is similar to that given of the planemember 12, but, instead of the form of hood or trough therefor described, which only conducts the heat currents to one end of the car-seat, the construction of the present form of deflector comprises a trough substantially of inverted U-shape, open at both ends and extending from one end of the cushion 1, to the other end. The top 23 is closed and the bottom open, as described for the construction shown in Fig. 1, but it gradually slants upwardly from a point near the center thereof and in opposite directions to each of the open ends. By this form of the invention the heat-currents, when deflected to the rear of the cushion 1, are conducted to both ends of the car-seat and there discharged.

From the "foregoing description of the construction of this invention, in its different forms, it will be readily understood that the heat currents from the radiator are kept constantly in motion by the deflector and conducted to the rear of the cushion of the car-seat and discharged at one or both ends of the car-seat, and not permitted to become pocketed beneath the cushion and therby overheat the same and make the seat uncomfortable from this cause.

Havin thus fully described my invention what I claim is new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is:

1. The combination with seat and a heatradiator thereunder, of a heat-deflector interposed therebetween, and provided at. its rear with an inverted trough shaped portion the top of which is inclined upwardly toward the end of the car seat.

2. The combination with a seat and a heat-radiator thereunder, of a heat-deflector interposed therebetween and provided at its rear with an inverted trough shaped portion the top of which is inclined upwardly toward the end of the car seat, means for removably attaching the radiator to the seat and means for removably securing the deflector to the said attaching means.

3. The combination with a seat and a heat-radiator thereunder, of a heat-deflector interposed therebetween and comprising an inclined plane-member provided at its upper part with an inverted trough shaped portion the top of which is inclined upwardly toward the end of the car seat, means for removably attaching the radiator to the seat and means for removably securing the deflector to the said attaching means.

The combination with a seat and a heat-radiator thereunder, of a heat-deflector interposed therebetween and comprising an inclined plane-member provided at its rear with an inverted trough shaped portion the top of which is inclined upwardly toward the end of the car seat, the said portion extending laterally beyond. the deflector, and being closed at the bottom ot its incline.

5. A heat-deflector for radiators comprising an inclined plane-member provided at its rear with an inverted trough shaped portion the top of which. is inclined upwardly toward the end or" the car seat, the said portion extending laterally beyond the deflector, and being closed at the bottom of its incline.

6. A heat-deflector for radiators comprising an inclined plane-member provided at its upper part with an inverted trough shaped portion the top of which is inclined upwardly toward the end of the plane-member.

7. A heat-deflector for radiators comprising an inclined plane-member provided along its upper part with an inverted trough shaped portion the top of which is inclined upwardly toward the end of the plane-member, the said portion extending laterally be yond the deflector.

8. The combination with a car seat and a heat-radiator removably secured to the frame of the seat, of a heat-deflector be tween the seat and the radiator, said deflector comprising an inverted trough shaped portion the top of which is inclined upwardly toward the end of the car seat, said portion extending laterally beyond the deflector and being closed at the bottom of its incline, and supports attached to the radiator for holding it in place in the seat frame, with supporting means between the deflector and said radiator supports.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

FREDERIG W. BUTT.

Witnesses E. J. BLAKE, O. MERRILL BIXBY.

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